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Number 123
THE CHECK COLLECTOR
July - September 2017
Editor: Robert D. Hohertz
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Contents
3 Collecting Territorial Paper 16 - Adams
7 Two-Territorial Check - Erase
8 Pennsylvania Non-Bank Paper - Hohertz
15 CT RSP Inventory - Woodworth
18 Announcements - Ivester
18 Find in the Marketplace - Ivester
19 Secretary’s Report - Hensley
19 Member Exchange
20 Officers
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The merchant’s drafts on the cover are non-Pennsylvania
examples of the kind of non-bank fiscal paper I’m writing
about beginning in this issue as a follow-up to the
monumental listing of checks and drafts issued by banks by
Peter Robin which ended last issue. I’m not the ideal person
to author such a listing, as I have not made any effort to
collect Pennsylvania paper other than things which interest
me or I get with other things I buy. But I do remember Ed
Lipson, at a paper money show, opening a stockbook full
or railroad drafts and pulling one of each out, saying, ’’You
need this one, and this one.” And a number of those were
from Pennsylvania.
In this issue we find some checks from 1903-1907 from
Oklahoma and Indian Territories, an interesting find of a
territory to territory order to pay, by David Brase, and the
beginning of an inventory of Connecticut revenue stamped
paper by Don Woodworth. So we did avoid running an
Index for this issue.
I can use a couple of articles for the fourth quarter - we
don’t want it to be taken up by three ongoing listings, one of
which I’m writing and one of which I mostly write. That is
not a sustainable situation.
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Collecting Territorial Paper
Part 16
By Jim Adams
We have spent time discussing Indian Territory and
Oklahoma Territory fiscal paper prior to the Spanish
American War tax period, and during that period, but these
territories did not combine to form the State of Oklahoma
until November 16, 1907. We shouldn't neglect the five
years in between.
The certificate of deposit below was issued in Orlando,
Oklahoma Territory in 1903. The settlement was originally
named Cherokee, but was changed to Orlando when a post
office was opened in 1899. Three years earlier a group of
swindlers bought property in the area and salted it with gold
nuggets to start a spurious gold rush.
Orlando is now part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan
area, and in the 2010 census boasted 148 inhabitants.
Andrew Blackwell's wife was of Cherokee descent, so he
was eligible to found the town of Blackwell at the time of
the Cherokee Strip land run in 1893. He served as its first
mayor. The town's first school opened almost immediately,
and a post office followed quickly.
Slightly more than two years after this check was written,
in May of 1906, a meteorite landed in town, but the most
notable natural occurrence associated with Blackwell is a
1955 tornado that destroyed almost 200 homes and killed
20 people.
The dog head on the certificate comes from a Landseer
painting.
The First National Bank of Blackwell was chartered in
1900. It ran until 1934 when it became First National Bank
in Blackwell, which failed in 1991.
W.E. Moody, signer of the check was an attorney in
Blackwell.
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GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
HAND-MADE
HARNESS
FARM
IMPLEMENTS^
W. H. VAN SELOUS, PROP.
BIO V RANCH
HORSES
MULES
AND CATTLE
Jj NATIONAL BANK
BLACKWELL, OKLA.
The Big V Ranch is closer to Ponca, but the Vanselous
family did their banking in Blackwell in 1906. William
Henry Vanselous began to buy Ponca land as soon as he
could, and eventually amassed about ten thousand acres of
it. Construction of the ranch was completed around 1901.
The Big V was reputedly the largest supplier of mules in
the United States early in the 20th Century, and it once
employed 50 or 60 ranch hands. Vanselous died in 1930, but
his farmhouse has been restored and may be visited today.
Beaver City, at the east side of the Oklahoma Panhandle,
was the location of a fur trading post in 1879. It was set
to be the capital of Cimarron Territory, which was never
formally established, although it did try to send a delegate
to Congress. Beaver County, or ”No Man’s Land," covered
the entire Panhandle from 1890 until statehood.
The Bank of Beaver City was opened in 1902 and is still
operating.
J. W. Cloud & Co
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Hardware .
Stroud, O. T.,
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To STROUD STATE BANK,
BURK! PTO. CO., FftEOONIA, HA Stroud , Oklahoma,
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Stroud, founded in 1892, had a wild reputation in its early
days. The Stroud State Bank was robbed by Barnard Burns
in 1901, but wasn’t involved in the 1915 simultaneous
robbery of two banks in Stroud by Henry Starr and friends.
Starr was wounded and captured, but only served four years
in prison before being paroled. He went on to rob other
banks, and portray himself in a movie before being shot
and killed in 1921 (while robbing a bank) at age 47.
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Kiel was founded by German settlers, who named it for their The Farmers and Merchants Bank, formed before 1900,
ancestral city. During World War I the name fell afoul of consolidated with Peoples National Bank of Kingfisher in
anti-German sentiment, so it was changed to Loyal. It had 1930, and that merged into Peoples First of Hennessey in
fewer than one hundred inhabitants as of the 2000 census. the 1990s.
The town of Arapaho dates from the April 19 Cheyenne -
Arapaho land run of 1892. A post office had been set up for
the town the month before, anticipating an influx of settlers,
and by sundown on the 19th there were 400 land claims.
The first town newspaper was published ten days later.
By 1894 a school and the county courthouse had been
built, and a library was opened in 1904. The First National
Bank came into existence as the Arapahoe State Bank in
1902, converting to a national bank shortly afterward. In
1919 it relocated to Clinton. The town has fewer than 1,000
residents today.
The town of Lone Wolf was a relative newcomer, not
having been founded until August of 1901 when the Kiowa,
Comanche, Apache Reservation was opened to outside
settlers. It was named for Chief Lone Wolf of the Kiowa.
The first business that opened in town was a restaurant, and
it is reported that Chief Lone Wolf, along with his wife and
son, were the first customers.
Although Lone Wolf boasted a number of businesses, it has
never had a large population, generally under 500 people.
The Bank of Lone Wolf converted to a national charter in
1911 and was acquired by the First State Bank of Lone Wolf
in 1995. That bank moved to Hobart, then merged with the
Peoples First of Hennessey in 1999, as did the successor to
the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Kiel, above.
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The town of Sulphur is large by the standards of those
we have been talking about on the last few pages, having
around 5,000 inhabitants. The area has been popular for its
mineral springs since the 1880’s. The first settlement was
built on a site that soon became part of the Sulphur Springs
Reservation, and in 1902 the residents had to move out of
the park. Some relocated to the east side of Rock Creek,
while others moved west of the Reservation. The park was
enlarged in 1904, and those who moved west were forced
to move again, so they chose the west side of Rock Creek.
To be continued.
At that point there was growth on both sides of the creek,
but no bridge was built across it until 1907. When they did,
build one, they buried a hatchet in it.
The Sulphur Bank & Trust Company was formed in 1903,
presumably in East Sulphur. In 1908 it became the Park
National Bank and Trust, Sulphur, which failed in 1932.
The check above was written less than six weeks before
Statehood.
An Ilion Bank Check with a Revenue Stamp!
courtesy of Roger Patterson
InTCC 120 I asked whether anyone has seen an Ilion Bank Roger also sent me a larger scan of the stamp, and the
check with a revenue stamp used to pay the bank check manuscript cancel does match the date of the check itself,
tax. Roger emailed me this scan of one, and commented
that many he has seen appear to have some water stains,
indicating that stamps could have fallen off naturally.
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A Two-Territorial Check on a Drug Store Billhead
By David Brase
In previous issues of The Check Collector I described
banking transactions with the Hibernia Savings & Loan
Society in San Francisco by individuals who used letterheads
of druggists in Amador City and Tolumne, California (TCC
Number 87) as well as showing a two-country certificate
of deposit issued in Nogales, Mexico and redeemed in
Nogales, Arizona (TCC Number 69.)
Last January at the annual International Stock and Bond
Show in Herndon, VA, I found something that I had been
wanting for more than twenty years - a druggist's billhead
from New Mexico. I have been collecting old drug/health
related billheads and letterheads since I started working for
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1995 (acquiring
over 2,000 such items) and I finally found one from New
Mexico among the offerings by the Champion Stamp
Company (NYC) at the show in Herndon.
It wasn't until I got home that I realized this billhead is not
a bill of sale. Rather, it is a check in the amount of $10
made out to the druggist Dr. T.R Robinson, to be charged
to the account of J.H. Frisby at A.C.M.I. Holbrook. Rubber
stamps on the back indicate that Dr. Robinson deposited
the check in the First National Bank of Albuquerque, NM.
That bank then sent it for collection on October 4, 1893.
The rubber stamp on the front clearly indicates that it was
paid one day later and that Holbrook is in Arizona (about 95
miles away from Gallup, New Mexico.)
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to THE PEOPLE’S DRUE STORE, dr.
DR. ROBINSON , Proprietor, and Dealer in
irugs, juiclnes, Mills, ®ns,
Glass, Dye Stuffs, Etc., Etc.,
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Stamped information on the
back of the billhead/check.
Thanks to an article by Jim Adams (TCC Number 100) we
know that the initials A.C.MJ. must refer to the Arizona
Cooperative Mercantile Institution. His article pictures
a 1906 check from this business in Holbrook, which
had a population of only 206 in 1890. Gallup, NM was
considerably larger, with a population of 2,948 in 1900.
Since both Arizona and New Mexico did not gain statehood
until 1912, this 1893 billhead check ties two U.S. territories.
Nevertheless, it is going into my billhead collection, not my
check collection. Now, if only I can find a New Mexico CD
for my collection of old certificates of deposit!
Pennsylvania Non-bank Drafts
by Bob Hohertz
For the better part of the last ten years we have been running
Peter Robin's detailed inventory of Pennsylvania checks
and drafts used from the 1860's to the early years of the
20th Century. It ran as Pennsylvania Banks, and each piece
of fiscal paper was catalogued by an issuing bank.
By its very nature, the inventory did not cover a group
of merchant's drafts and receipts, as any bank associated
with these would be written in by hand and could vary for
identically printed documents. Many of these involved
railroads charging each other for services rendered.
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As an example, this draft paid the Pennsylvania Railroad I am not the best person to compile a list of these drafts, as
Company for hauling Buffalo and Erie Railroad cars on my collection of PA fiscal paper is not the most extensive,
their lines. But, here goes.
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This elaborate railroad draft was pictured in an earlier TCC, Again, there was no bank involved in the transaction,
when I wrote about buffalo vignettes. It was used by the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway to collect an I’ll list my PA non-bank items by revenue imprint. I’ll also
amount due from the Buffalo and State Line Railroad. illustrate all of them over the course of the listings.
RNB1
Location
User
Printer
Printed
Dateline
Type of Document
Mauch Chunk
Lehigh Valley RR Co
CFK
186
Draft
Meadville
Atlantic & Great Western Ry
CFK
186_
Draft
Philadelphia
Davis, Me Kean & Co
Philadelphia Sugar Refinery
18_
Receipt
Philadelphia
totally generic
Alx
Receipt (?)
Pittsburgh
Wood, Matthews & Co
KrB
186
Draft
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Ry
18_
Draft
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania RR Co, lessee, of the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Ry
18_
Draft
The Lehigh Valley Rail Road Company issued this draft to
collect for shipping coal.
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This draft was issued to collect ticket balances from the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway by the
Atlantic and Great Western. It has a Treasurer’s handstamp
from the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne, signifying that the
amount claimed had been reviewed and accepted.
This very unusual document is entirely generic, though it
does have lines to enter text and amount. At the time it was
used there should not have been generic documents, as they
should have been approved as to form before an imprint
was added. It was likely a holdover from the time before
approval was necessary.
From what is written it is difficult to tell whether it is a
receipt or a merchant’s draft. It reads like a receipt for
$451.51 in cement for merchandise, which does not make
a lot of sense to me. I would classify it as a receipt, in any
case.
Another unusual document. Jas Wood & Company asked cents if payable on sight. The two cent imprint was ignored,
A.C. Lake of Paducah for $445.35, and gave him 45 days in though it became payable when the draft was accepted,
which to pay. This resulted in 25 cents in tax rather than two Then, at some point, the transaction was cancelled.
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A receipt from the Philadelphia Sugar Refinery to D.S.
Benedict and Sons, Louisville
There must be a number more Pennsylvania receipts with
the tax paid by a Type B imprint, but the other two I have
used B20.
The Castenholz Eastern Central States Field Guide lists
eleven with B20. One of mine is not listed, while the other
has a different printed dateline. Bill also lists one using B16,
so my listing will be representative only. If we want it to be
more nearly complete we will need to draw on the Ivester
and Lesher collections, at the very least. And there will still
be others, no doubt.
Location User
Philadelphia Coates Brothers
Philadelphia James, Kent Santee & Co
Printer Printed Type of Document
Dateline
18_ Receipt
WmM 186_ Receipt
The Coates Brothers were prominent wool merchants in a certificate of deposit which was paid a bit more than a
Philadelphia. This receipt appears to have been used as month later, with interest.
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James, Kent, Santee & Company were dry goods merchants And yes, the imprint on this receipt is a bit crooked,
whose firm was established in 1840. Despite a disastrous
fire in 1866, the firm prospered.
RN Cl
Location
User
Printer Printed
Type of Document
Dateline
Pittsburgh
Erie & Pittsburgh Rail Road
Pennsylvania RR Co, Lessee
187_
Draft
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Company
O
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Draft
The Pennsylvania Rail Road Company is asking for their
share of proceeds from the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Railway on trips between Erie and Girard (?) for the month
of January, 1871.
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The Pennsylvania Company was a holding company formed
in 1870 to own the Western Lines of the Pennsylvania Rail
Road. Here it is asking the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Rail
Road for reimbursement of their share of ticket balances
for April of 1872.
RNCla
Location
User
Printed
Dateline
Type of Document
Philadelphia
Henry Disston
& Son
1870
Receipt
Disston and Son are the users of several of the rare types of
instructive clauses that are found with RN H3. Apparently
one order of their receipts was sent to American Phototype
instead of Butler and Carpenter, and received a Type C
imprint instead of Type H.
Only three examples of C1 a are currently known, but there
well may be more. The instructive clause, which runs up the
left side in black type, is easily missed if one is not looking
for it.
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Location User
Philadelphia John Frick
Pittsburgh Indianapolis & Vincennes Railroad Co
Printer
Printed
Dateline
Type of Document
WmM
187
Draft
CFK
187
Draft
John Frick is undoubtedly related to the one who allowed
locks of the Schuylkill Canal to be built on his property,
which became known as Frick’s Lock, though that particular
John Frick had died by 1871. A son, perhaps?
The other C2 draft was drawn by the Indianapolis &
Vincennes Railroad Company to collect ticket balances
from what appears to be the Detroit, Toledo, Wabash and
Logansport Rail Road, which does not show up in Edson’s
Railroad Names , so may or may not have existed briefly in
the 1870s.
I’ll continue this look at Pennsylvania non-bank drafts and
receipts in subsequent issues as space dictates. Perhaps next
time we will have access to most of the B20 receipts that
were listed in Castenholz, as those he had now reside in the
Ivester collection.
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Connecticut Revenue Stamped Paper (RSP) Bank Checks and
Related Documents - Part 1 - by Don Woodworth
In this issue we begin an inventory of Connecticut revenue stamped paper. This first installment is more of a prologue to
the listing. Let Don present it in his own words.
I have prepared this list at the request of our editor
following the approximate outline used by Peter Robin in
his monumental listing of Pennsylvania checks that has
been appearing for several years in The Check Collector.
My listing will not be as extensive as Mr. Robin’s list
because I collect only revenue stamped paper (RSP) from
Connecticut. I do have a few checks and documents bearing
adhesive revenue stamps but not in sufficient number
to be worthy of creating a listing for our journal. Hence,
this list is confined solely to RSP. It lists all items in my
extensive collection plus those I have observed in the
collections of several friends. Those having additions to
this list are welcome to contact me at don.woodworth@att.
net. In contacting me, I would appreciate receiving scans
of your material so that I will have an image and all details
necessary in one fell swoop.
The extensive table that follows this introduction is
organized as follows:
1. Horizontally: Break points show major RSP Types (A,
B, C, etc.); Value and color of the imprinted stamp (ex. 20
Orange, 20 Green, etc.); Location of imprinted stamp on
the document (Center {most common}, Left, or Right); and
type of financial instrument (Check, Draft, Receipt, etc.).
2. Vertically: Eight columns, broken out as follows, provide:
a. Type. Entries in this column indicate the Sub-types of
the basic Type of imprint shown on the horizontal “Type”
line. The horizontal “Type” line indicating the break point
for each given basic type of RSP known for Connecticut is
sub-divided in this column. For example, the “Type B” is
broken out to the appropriate subtypes in ascending order:
Bl, Bla, B6, BIOS (the “S” indicates a printer’s sample -
not listed in the Scott catalog or in Castenholz), B17, B20,
and B23. Note: there are many other sub-types of the Type
B; only those known to exist for Connecticut appear in this
listing.
b. Geographic Location. Self-explanatory.
c. Issuing Agency. This is the name of the bank or firm that
issued or made use of a particular type of document. Care
must sometimes be exercised in this area as distinctions
between checks may be based on a subtle difference such as
the font used for the same issuing institution or a manuscript
line-out/write-in of a modified city or bank name.
d. Individual Account. This is the name of the person, firm,
or institution having an account with the issuing agency. Ex:
The Birmingham Iron Foundry having an account with, and
being able to write checks upon, the Birmingham National
Bank.
e. Printing and Paper Color. Indicates the color of the ink
used to print the relevant document (separate from the
color of the imprinted revenue stamp) and the color of the
paper upon which the document is printed. The convention
used is for the color(s) of ink(s) used to print the text of the
document to appear first followed by the color of the paper
upon which the document is printed.
f. Printing Company (“Print Co.”). The name of the firm
that printed the document - usually found in small type
at the lower left hand corner of the document; sometimes
toward the bottom center; and sometimes not included on
the document. It is important to pay attention to this area
because variations in how the name of the printer appears
are sometimes the only thing that differentiates otherwise
identical appearing documents. Our society maintains
a master list of the full names for each of the three-letter
printer codes accessed by clicking the words Security
Printers Guide at our web site: www.ascheckcollectors.
org. In cases where the name of a printer is not printed on
a document, this is indicated by the appearance of a dash
(“-”)•
g. Remarks. Pay careful attention to the “Remarks” column.
There are sometimes differences in the way that a date line
or the name of the printer distinguishes otherwise identical
checks. The Castenholz Guide often does not distinguish
among variations that appear on the Date line of a check
or draft. For example, one check might have the date line
printed simply as “ 18” and leave it to the user to manually fill
in the last two digits of the year; other checks might have a
‘187” leaving it to the user to fill in the last digit of the year;
and others might have the full year printed out. Similarly,
the name of a printer may appear in all capital letters; mixed
font capitals; or a mix of capital and lower case letters.
There is no difference in price among such minor varieties.
Collectors have the choice of how they collect such items -
they can simply acquire one representative item or they can
seek to acquire each minor variety. Completeness is in the
eye of the beholder!
h. Castehnoltz Listing. C=Castenholz-listed. NC=Non-
Castenholz-unlisted. A “C” indicates the item is listed in the
Field Guide to Revenue Stamped Paper Part 5 The Eastern
States printed by Castenholz and Sons, 1990. Though
now 27 years out of date, this useful guide is still the best
starting place for those who would collect Connecticut
RSP - until, of course, the printing of this compendium! (-:
The appearance of an “NC” in the “Stamp” column should
definitely not be taken to infer that an item is particularly
scarce but only that it is to be expected that new items would
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appear during such a long interval between the printing of
Mr. Catzenholz’s pioneering work and the present time.
There are 440 individual listings of RSP in the Castenholz
guide. There are (as of July 2017) 354 additional listings
of Connecticut items discovered since publication of the
Guide. I am certain there are more still to be found.
A warning: In some instances, Castenholz seems rather
imprecise, likely due to the number of items that have been
found since the printing of the handbooks complicating
what originally might have been a simple listing for a
single discrete item. It has been rather maddening in trying
to accurately list Type G checks for places like Bridgeport
and East Haddam due to the large amount of available
material. Infallibility is not totally guaranteed despite my
best effort and collectors are advised to use extra care if/
when attempting to cross-reference Castenholz listings for
these Types/Towns with the listings in this article.
I have elected not to include check sizes in millimeters
as Mr. Robin did in his excellent Pennsylvania survey.
Discounting a Type RN-C9 and a Type RN-L3, examples
of which are only known to exist on document fragment,
all other documents exist in their entirety and range in size
from 2 7/16 to 3 12/16 inches in height by 6 1/16 to 8 13/16
inches in width. Exceptions are standard format vertical
receipts that range from 5 1/6 to 5 8/16 x 7 10/16 to 8 8/16”;
one receipt at 8 3/16 x 10 6/16” and a few stocks and bonds
which are always larger items. It should be noted that all
of the dimensions cited here are for the overall size of the
document itself and not that of the image appearing on the
document. In almost all cases, the size of the design will be
slightly less than the dimensions of the overall document.
This listing is current as of 15 July 2017. Material herein
listed has been acquired from many sources over the years:
dealers/revenue dealers Dave & Joni Allego, Richard
Friedberg, Eric Jackson, and Denny Peoples; friends Bob
Hohertz and Hermann Ivester who are avid RSP collectors;
and (increasingly) the internet. I would be happy to consider
the purchase of items identified by an asterisk (*) in the “C
or NC” column.
With this introduction, we will proceed to a comprehensive
of all currently known items of Connecticut RSP and
trust that readers will enjoy seeing what is out there. As
just straight listings can tend to be a bit boring, I have
also included illustrations of some of the more interesting
pieces of Connecticut RSP that exist. It should be noted
that most items are what could be classified as “Plain Jane”
types of document - just basic text with no accompanying
vignette(s). This is how roughly 75% of Connecticut
RSP exists. We have elected to tap into the 25% of items
with vignettes in order to show readers some of the more
interesting material that exists. I thank my friends Lyman
Hensley, Bob Hohertz, Hermann Ivester, and Ron Lesher
for their assistance with this compendium. Happy reading
and viewing!
RNA2
RECEIPT
Geographic
Issuing Agency
Individual Account
Type
Paper Printer Remarks
Location
Color
Color
Hartford
L.B. Plimpton & Co.
Black
White
C /
NC
C
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Number 123 THE CHECK COLLECTOR
RN B1 CHECKS
Geographic
Issuing Agency
Individual Account
Type
Paper
Printer
Remarks
C /
Location
Color
Color
NC
Birmingham
Birmingham NB
Birmingham Iron Foundry
Green
White
CMC
C
(Roman font)
(blue hand stamp)
Birmingham
First NB of
Birmingham Iron Foundry
Gold
White
S&B
c
the City of Bridgeport
(italic font)
Birmingham
Birmingham NB (script font) Birmingham Iron Foundry
Gold
White
S&B
(Gothic font)
Bridgeport
Bridgeport NB
Wholesale Grocers
(name at top missing)
Gold
White
N&P
c
Bridgeport
City NB
Purple
White
VKC
NC
Bridgeport
Connecticut NB
Connecticut at left
Green
White
VKC
Printer at
c
of Bridgeport
19 Nassau St.
Bridgeport
Connecticut NB
Connecticut at left
Green
White
VKC
Printer at
NC
of Bridgeport
49 Cedar St.
Bridgeport
Connecticut NB
of Bridgeport
Bank name at left
Green
White
VKC
c
Bridgeport
First NB of Bridgeport
Connecticut at left
Red
White
EAL
NC
Bridgeport
First NB of Bridgeport
Connecticut at left
Red-
Brown
White
EAL
NC
Bridgeport
H Nichols Treas. Naugatuck
Connecticut NB
Green
White
VKC
NC
RR Co m/s over CT NB
of Bridgeport at left
Deep River
Deep River NB
Connecticut at left
Red
White
VKC
C
Deep River
Deep River NB
Connecticut at left
Violet
White
VKC
c
Deep River
Russell Jennings
Violet
JSH
c*
East Haddam
NB of New England
"Cashiers Check" at left
Black
Gold tint SHW
c
East Haddam
NB of New England
L. Boardman & Son
Green
White
C&M
c
East Haddam
NB of New England
L. Boardman & Son
Brown
White
CMC
c
East Haddam
NB of New England
Emory Johnson
Green
White
CMC
c
East Haddam
NB of New England
Wilson C. Reynolds
Gold, red, White
CLB
c
green
East Haddam
New England Nat Bk (sic)
Green
White
c*
(m/s change from Thames NB, Norwich)
East Haddam
NB of New England
Freeman & Robertson
Red
Orange
tint NYL
c*
(m/s change from Nassau B, New York)
Goodspeed's
NB of New England
W.H. Goodspeed (italics)
Red
White
GFN
Vignette of
c
Landing
steamboat at left
Goodspeed's
NB of New England
Goodspeed & Reynolds
Red
White
JSH
Vignette of
c
Landing
sailing ship at left
To be continued
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Number 123
THE CHECK COLLECTOR
July - September 2017
Announcements.
Chris Jones has volunteered to serve as the ASCC Secretary. He and Lyman Hensley, our current Secretary, are in the
process of making the change. We thank Lyman for his many years of faithful service. Chris has also agreed to take on the
responsibilities of Treasurer when Dick Naven steps down on December 31, 2018. We also thank Chris for his willingness
to serve in both capacities.
If you have not paid your dues for 2017, please do so ASAP. If your name is on the list of unpaid members this will be the
last issue of TCC that you will receive unless you pay your dues.
A Find in the Marketplace
by Hermann Ivester
RETURNED UNPAID FROM
W. B. WORTHEN CO., Bankers
LITTLE ROCK.
FOR REASON
15
r 16
/ 17
1 Alteration—guarantee of
2 Amount—guarantee of
3 Clearing House Stamp
4 Date'
5 Drawn against uncollected
funds
6 Endorsement
7 Endorsement does not agree
with face of check
8 Endorsement—guarantee of
9 Figures and body do not agree
10 INSUFFICIENT FUNDS
11 Mark must be witnessed
12 No account
13 No authority to pay
14 No funds
CO., Bank
No .J-f—
15_$ot countersigned
Payment stopped
Payment refused
18 Receipt not signed
19 Sent us in error
20 Signature incorrect
21 Signature missing
22 Signature not on file
23 Signature unauthorized
24 Two witnesses required
25 "Witness missing
26 Where payable
27 No Payee
.ittle Rock, Ark,
/'mM ^
No.
193 _^
S *2 C
uERS, i
, Ark.
WALT
d'
The check shown above was drawn on W. B. Worthen Co.
of Little Rock in 1932. There is only one thing worth noting
about this check and that is the rather exhaustive list of
reasons for which the bank might refuse payment that is
attached to its face. The list contains 27 reasons for refusing
payment. A few seem to be a bit of a stretch, such as 16 and
17, “payment stopped” and “payment refused,” which seem
to be the same thing. Numbers 10 and 14, “INSUFFICIENT
FUNDS” and “No funds,” also hardly seem to be worth
separating into two categories. Moreover, they undoubtedly
are the two most common reasons for refusing payment.
One would think the bank could have made them numbers
1 and 2 rather than bury them at 10 and 14. I know, that
would disregard the alphabetical order, but given the bank’s
creativity otherwise displayed in the long list, renaming
them "Account has insufficient funds/no funds" would
have restored order. Perhaps I have not been paying close
enough attention, but I do not recall ever seeing anything
comparable. Is this notice as odd as it seems to me, or have
other members also seen something similar?
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Number 123
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July - September 2017
Member Exchange
Collector seeks Oklahoma Territory & Indian Territory checks. Top prices paid. Bob Fritz, P.O. Box 1548, Sun
City, AZ 85372-1548.
New member is interested in pre-1950 Wisconsin checks. Will purchase or trade for any needed. Tom Casper,
S95W13453 St. Andrews Dr., Muskego, WI 53150. E-mail tcasper57@hotmail.com.
Charter member would like to obtain a check from the ’’Washington National Bank” or the Telegraphers National
Bank", both of Saint Louis, MO. Will purchase or trade. Ron Horstman, 5010 Timber Lane, Gerald, MO 63037.
Wanted: Checks from dealers in Indian relics or fossils - or signed by archaeologists or paleontologists. Or other
related paper. Write: Stan Raugh, 4217 8th Avenue, Temple, PA 19570-1805.
Wanted: "Manuscript” aka completely handwritten checks. All states and dates (generally pre-1900. Sheldon
Rabin, 1820 Sheep Ranch Loop, Chula Vista, CA, 91913-1659, sheldonrabin@yahoo.com.
Dealer wants checks signed by celebrities. No quantity too large. Myron Ross, Heroes & Legends, 18034 Ventura
Blvd., Encino, CA 91316
Collector seeks checks autographed by famous people. Top prices paid. Michael Reynard, 1301 20th Street #260,
Santa Monica, CA 90404. reynard@ucla.edu
Collector seeks New York City Tenth National Bank checks and other documents.. A1 Terre, PO Box 25181
Arlington, VA 22202. sur4sale@yahoo.com
Exchange postings will be taken from ASCC members who are collectors only. Postings of 20 words or less are free; please remit $3
each issue for postings of 21 to fifty words. Name and address do not count toward the 20 words.
Neither the Editor nor the ASCC can be responsible for compliance with any promises made in postings, or in response to them. Be
very clear as to the value you place on your material when discussing a trade. Fairness and common courtesy are to be expected, but
common sense must rule.
Secretary’s Report
Lyman Hensley
Previous Total 128
New Members 2
Reinstatements 1
Resignations 0
Deaths 0
Undeliverable 0
Dropped - Not Paid 11
Current Total 120
New Members
1942 Cucchiani, Renato (us pre 1918, Italy,
Switzerland, Travelers checks)
Via San Pietro 11
CH-6929 Gravesana Switzerland
1943 Gibson, Jill (1,6, 14, 31)
24104E Happy Hollow Rd
Independence, MO 64058
Reinstated
1642 Cherry, Hal
Dropped - Non-Payment of Dues
1928 Curt Banspach
1786 George Q. Booth
1895 Melvin Dill
1758 Bob Fritz
1519 Periodicals Division New York Public Library
0981 Joel Rind
1931 Susan Rouleau
1724 James D. Sheppard
1921 Bernard Smith
0964 Charles R. Travis
1930 Anthony Ventura
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THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CHECK COLLECTORS, INC.
A non-profit organization organized under Section 501-(c)-(3)
Officers:
President:
Hermann Ivester
5 Leslie Circle
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Vice-President:
Donald Woodworth
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Secretary:
Lyman Hensley
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Sycamore, IL 60178-1934
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Treasurer:
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Directors:
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Bob Hohertz (2018)
Hermann Ivester (2018)
M. S. Kazanjian (2018)
Chris Jones (2017)
Donald Woodworth (2017)
Dick Naven (2017)
Myron Ross (2017)
Lee E. Poleske (Emeritus)
Departments:
Attorney:
Hermann Ivester
5 Leslie Circle
Little rock, AR 72205-2529
Editor, The Check Collector.
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